Calls for papers

Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field and community by submitting to one of our calls for papers, for our upcoming Guest Edited Collections. For enquiries, please contact scirep.collection@springernature.com.

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  • Preterm labour and birth

    This Collection welcomes original research on the prevalence, causes, and treatment of preterm labour and birth, with an eye towards reducing the global toll of this phenomenon.
    • Fook-Choe Cheah, MD, MMed (Paeds), FRACP, FRCPCH, PhD, FASc
    • Pankaj Goyal, PhD
    • Sandra E. Reznik, MD, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 October 2024

  • Self-Assembled Soft Matter

    In this cross-journal Collection, across Nature Communications, Communications Chemistry, Communications Materials and Scientific Reports, we focus on different forms of self-assembled soft matter, from fundamental studies to applied systems. This includes, for example, coacervation and liquid-liquid phase separation, chiral systems and polymer assemblies.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 October 2024

    • Subsoils for Sustainable Agriculture

      This Collection encourages original research on integrating subsoil management into holistic agricultural practices, with an emphasis on site-specific approaches that consider the unique characteristics of each subsoil and its interaction with the topsoil. This includes the use of precision agriculture technologies to map and monitor subsoil properties, enabling targeted interventions that optimize subsoil health and function.
      • Asim Biswas, PhD
      • Shah Fahad, PhD
      • Gloria Falsone, PhD
      • Ornella Francioso, PhD
      • Georgia Ntatsi, PhD
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 October 2024

    • Healthy ageing and brain health

      The present Collection welcomes original research articles investigating the genetic, lifestyle, and environmental factors that influence brain health and accordingly, promote or compromise healthy ageing.
      • Carmela Rita Balistreri, PhD
      • Nafisa M. Jadavji, PhD
      • Veronica Mazza, PhD
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 26 October 2024

    • Food security and resilience

      In this cross-journal Collection, we invite contributions that use holistic approaches to understand the distribution and economics of food systems and provide solutions to build resilience and make food systems more sustainable and equitable.
      • Ariel Soto-Caro, PhD
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 25 October 2024

    • Pharmaceutical pollution

      In light of the role this research plays in UN Sustainable Development Goal 6, this Collection welcomes original research into all aspects of pharmaceutical pollution from monitoring levels and effects of pollutants to strategies for mitigation and remediation.
      • Pankaj Kumar Arora, PhD
      • Nadeem A. Khan, PhD
      • Rui C. Martins, PhD
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 25 October 2024

    • RNA modifications

      This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports welcomes submissions on the molecular biology of RNA modifications and methods developed to identify and characterize them.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 25 October 2024

      • Ending plastic pollution

        Plastics are a crucial part of modern life, however tens of millions of tonnes of plastic waste is disposed of each year, much of which ultimately ends up in the ocean. In this Collection we showcase studies on understanding and mitigating (micro)plastic pollution, with a special focus on reducing plastic waste in the environment to coincide with 2024's upcoming binding UN treaty on Ending Plastic Pollution.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 24 October 2024

        • Mass spectrometry method development

          Mass spectrometry is a cornerstone technique across various scientific disciplines, enabling precise analysis of complex samples, characterization of atom clusters and molecules, and elucidation of reaction mechanisms. This cross-journal Collection brings together advances in method development for mass spectrometry, including but not limited to advances in sample preparation, instrumentation, automation and integration, computational data analysis and prediction.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 October 2024

          • Geopolymeric materials: new materials, processing and gaps

            Geopolymeric materials exhibit cementitious properties including lower carbon emissions and improved durability, making them useful in various construction and building applications of modern times.
            • Afonso Azevedo, PhD
            • Yew Ming Kun, PhD
            • Mahbube Subhani, PhD
            • Doo-Yeol Yoo, PhD
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 23 October 2024